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Sometimes I still see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING" and I'm wondering who in 2026 isn't at least passably familiar with it.
But then again I also see job posts that are like "must know Java or JavaScript"
What is not clear is if the software development division updated their practices.
Exactly, if there's even the slightest risk that I'll need to dust off the good ol ajax that's a nope from me.
There’s a lot of legacy stuff around. I saw some CORBA in the wild recently.
So many sites still use that with a shiny UI slapped on top.
in 2026 you really have to ask an employer what they mean by object oriented programming in the interview. do they mean a methodology of organizing pure functional code into actors and message busses? do they mean imperitive code that's interacted with through generic interfaces as with python? or do they mean javascipt style OOP where you define classes to organize your imperitive code within a functional language without any concern for the generic interfaces this could hypothetically enable?
Considering most people only know procedural programming and are calling it functional/objective...